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Possibly one of the most offensive shows ever aired. But it’s funny, so that makes it okay, right?

Without a doubt one of the most offensive shows ever created, the animated Comedy Central series Drawn Together is also, grudgingly admitted, one of the funniest. You won’t be proud of yourself for laughing at it, but you will laugh.

For those unfamiliar with the show, it’s a “reality show” along the lines of The Real World, but with a cast of cartoon characters. A Disney-style princess, a superhero, a video game character, a silent-era Betty Boop-esque girl, a Hanna Barbara-type homaging Josie and the Pussycats, a Pokemon creature, a Spongebob parody and a web series character round out the cast. It seems harmless enough at first, but these characters are all seriously f’ed up. Seriously.

Captain Hero destroys more than he saves, the Disney-esque Princess Clara is a bigot and religious headcase, Toot (the Betty Boop-alike) is a bag of nastiness, physically and otherwise, and Foxxy’s promiscuity is her focal point. Throughout the 14 episodes that comprised season three, the group get into all sorts of un-PC mischief, from a television show they’re producing turning the children of the world gay to Captain Hero mistaking the daughter of his new Greek neighbors for the mascot of a Greek fraternity and kidnapping her. When the gang goes shopping, Clara is left alone and believes the Rapture has occurred and goes on a rampage of evil and decadence (in another episode, it’s revealed she has a sexual fetish for watching car crashes).

There is no real way to accurately describe the show. Presented uncensored here, every blurred out penis and breast is fully rendered in jaw-dropping, eye-gouging clarity. The jokes are absolutely juvenile, with the obsessively-hetero Hero constantly trying to trick his male roommates into raping him, Clara and Foxxy’s lesbian encounters even as Clara mocks Foxxy’s race and the absolute disgustingness of Toot. No taboo is unturned here and you will want to take a shower to rid yourself of the icky feeling you get from laughing heartily at the nastiness.

Yes, you will go to hell for watching this. But at least you’ll have a smile on your face during the trip.

Special features on this 2-disc Paramount set include a few scattered commentaries that include the creators giving tips on how to play drinking games during the episodes. A karaoke section is the only other extra.

Race jokes, gay jokes, religious jokes…nothing is off limits in Drawn Together. Yes, I’m going to hell for watching it. See you there.

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